The Lovely Horrible Stuff

Eddie Campbell, best known for his collaborations with Alan Moore, crafts a deeply personal and visually inventive graphic novel about the strange, often unsettling relationship humans have with money. Published by Top Shelf and Knockabout Comics, this single-issue work from 2012 blends autobiography, economic history, and philosophical musings as Campbell traces his own financial entanglements, from a family debt to the broader mysteries of currency. It’s a smart, idiosyncratic meditation that showcases Campbell’s signature blend of wit, vulnerability, and expressive linework, making a quiet but compelling case for the comic as a medium for complex nonfiction.